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The unplanned deployments of Marines along the U.S-Mexico border, among other unplanned demands has strained the force to the point that it faces “unacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness,” is Commandant Gen. Robert Neller said this week.

The March 18 memo, first reported by the Los Angeles Times,was addressed to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer as part of a lengthy request to seek funding relief for the Corps.

Without relief, the Corps would be forced to cancel a number of key exercises in Twentynine Palms, Alaska and Scotland, Neller warned, which would further degrade readiness.

Apparently SFB has been kidnapped and the twitter box taken away. No tweets that read from him again this morning. His attack on Sen. McCain went too far for some of his cult/mob. They just will not say so in public.

a special thank you to X-R (and to pogo belatedly) on behalf of jace and me for today’s thread. the march madness of taxes and tourneys have been bumps ( more like boulders re new 1040) on the trail of creativity so I really really appreciate any threads that are submitted. here’s to fearless leader reappearing soon… how has he done it all these 14 years?

President Trump declared on Thursday that the United States should recognize Israel’s authority over the long disputed Golan Heights, delivering a valuable election-eve gift to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but jettisoning decades of American policy in the Middle East.

But Mr. Trump’s move, while popular in Israel and among some lawmakers in Congress, is likely to be condemned almost everywhere else. The United Nations has rejected Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights since 1967, when Israeli troops seized the 400 square miles of rocky highlands from Syria during the Arab-Israeli war.

It will also reverberate throughout the Middle East and could undermine Mr. Trump’s long anticipated peace proposal for Israel and the Palestinians. The White House has been enlisting support for the plan among Arab leaders who now face the prospect of acquiescing in the loss of land they had long claimed as Arab.

President Trump’s former campaign chairman Steve Bannon reportedly said that the president’s most dangerous 2020 opponents would be former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.

“Beto on the ticket with Harris is the most dangerous ticket for Trump,” Bannon told a conservative group in Italy, according to the Daily Beast.

A group made up of more than 500 cities, counties and Native American tribes across the United States has filed a massive lawsuit accusing members of the Sackler family, who own the maker of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, of helping to create “the worst drug crisis in American history”.

The lawsuit represents communities in 26 states and eight tribes and accuses Sackler family members of knowingly breaking laws in order to enrich themselves to the tune of billions of dollars, while hundreds of thousands of Americans died.

“Eight people in a single family made the choices that caused much of the opioid epidemic,” the lawsuit, filed earlier this week in federal court in the southern district of New York, states.

also in the guardian: May’s appeal falls flat as EU seizes control of Brexit date

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n the unlikely event that May does win the support of the Commons when the Brexit deal goes to MPs again on Tuesday, the UK will stay a member state until 22 May to allow necessary withdrawal legislation to be passed.

“The 12 April is the new 29 March,” an EU official said.

Donald Tusk, the European council president, told reporters in a late-night press conference that he had several meetings through the evening to secure May’s agreement.

He said: “What this means in practice is that, until that date, all options will remain open, and the cliff-edge date will be delayed. The UK government will still have a choice of a deal, no-deal, a long extension or revoking article 50.”

I want trump to be the republican nominee. Anything short of SFB going down in defeat by the people of this country wouldn’t be as satisfying. That is ….. unless….. he gets defeated by republicans nominating someone else or he leaves office for whatever reason.

I think Mittens might like to run but he would have to see lots of goopers starting to peel away from Trump

When Trump voters (sic) say they like him because he has gotten so much done – I wish some idiot reporter would ask the obvious follow-up question — Give me an example of something he has done. please.

“THINK about the fact that we don’t just have a mentally unstable president—but a president who thinks he needs to be re-elected to avoid being indicted. (At least in that one respect his thinking is clear.),” Conway tweeted.

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